I’ve been interested in Astral Chain from PlatinumGames since it was announced, but the gameplay during this year’s Nintendo Treehouse segment of E3 is what really sold me on the game.
Astral Chain looks fantastic, and it’s just a little over two months away. And now, thanks to a new interview translated here by Nintendo Everything, we know there might be even more Astral Chain to look forward to.
According to the game’s director, Takahisa Taura, Astral Chain will not have DLC, but they hope to make it into a trilogy:
Currently, there are no plans to publish extra content for Astral Chain. That is different for the game’s story. We’re making the game as a trilogy, and this is the first part of that trilogy. If this game sells well, we might see how the story of the series continues.”
It sounds as though they’ve written Astral Chain with a trilogy in mind. Hopefully that means the first game’s story still stands on its own, since they could never end up making the next two.
Update: It turns out the statement in the interview was a mistranslation; they did not plan it as a trilogy, but rather are thinking about ways they could expand it into a trilogy.
Nevertheless, it’s exciting to know that if Astral Chain does well, they want to make not just one, but two sequels.
Astral Chain will be out on August 30 for the Nintendo Switch. Are you planning to pick it up?
Law of third titles continues.
That said, I’m not a big fan of counting the Chocobos before they hatch.
Turns out it was a mistranslation in the interview.